TL;DR
- Google’s redesigned Gmail settings are rolling out with full Material 3 Expressive styling.
- The updated interface features colorful icons, rounded cards, larger controls, and better-organized settings.
- The redesign has been spotted in Gmail version 2026.11.02.1020540846, but availability remains limited.
Google has been giving its Android apps a fresh coat of paint, but Gmail’s settings have remained stubbornly old-fashioned. That’s beginning to change, as a redesigned settings experience we uncovered last month is finally reaching users, complete with Google’s Material 3 Expressive styling.
Back in October, we discovered that Google was preparing a major cleanup of Gmail’s cluttered settings menu. We enabled the new interface manually on an Android 15 device, but it lacked the system-level Material 3 Expressive styling introduced with Android 16. As a result, we could see the reorganized settings, but not the full visual makeover Google had planned.
